Oliver Cromwell — MP for Cambridge — acted decisively at the start of the war to secure Cambridge for Parliament, seizing the castle and intercepting college silver that was being sent to the King. His bold action secured the university town and was one of his first military acts of the Civil War. Cambridge became the administrative centre of the Eastern Association, the Parliamentary organisation that funded Cromwell's cavalry.
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